Awg Tengah presents aid to Kg Lereng Bukit landslide victims

by · Borneo Post Online
Awang Tengah (third left) listens to the concerns raised by flood victims.

KUCHING (Jan 31): Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan presented personal contributions to Kampung Lereng Bukit landslide victims in Miri today (Jan 31).

A press release from his office said the contributions were presented when Awang Tengah visited the victims of the tragedy which claimed five lives.

The Second Minister for Natural Resources and Urban Development also went to the location of the landslide where he was briefed by the police and other security personnel involved in search and rescue efforts.

Awang Tengah (second left) is briefed by Miri police chief ACP Alexson Naga Chabu (centre) at the site of the landslide.

Awang Tengah and his entourage then visited the temporary evacuation centre for flood victims at SMK Bekenu, where he also presented contributions to the victims evacuated there.

Among those present were Deputy Health Minister Dato Lukanisman Awang Sauni; Deputy Minister for Youth, Sport and Entrepreneur Development II Datuk Ripin Lamat; Deputy State Secretary Dato Sri Dr Mohammad Abdullah Zaidel; Awangku Jinal Pengiran Jawa – a political secretary to the Premier; and Miri Deputy Resident Bujang Rahman Sebli.